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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Sanctifying the Simple-Minded and the Erroneous COG Members

The 7th of Abib, a date that certain Church of God splinter groups finds significance in, especially those wild and crazy fold in the Christian Churches of God. Though this not one of those "fun" feast days COGers celebrate, this one involves members fasting. This one involves supposed COG members fasting for the simple minded and the erroneous nincompoops of the world.

We observe 7 Abib, the Sanctification for and of the Simple and the Erroneous (Ezek. 45:20). On this day we fast. Why do we do this? Was not Christ's Sacrifice enough for the process for all time? Are we trying to do something that was done by Christ and usurp Christ's prerogative?

Ezekiel 45:20 And so you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who has sinned unintentionally or in ignorance. Thus you shall make atonement for the temple.

(cf. also Heb. 5:1-2.)

The church is apparently filled with simple-minded people too stupid to understand what God's most mighty COG leader is teaching. Those spiritual idiots apparently are also members of the various COG's. They are lacking in intelligence and are unable to understand the amazing teachings of dingy Wade Cox.

Thus the Temple of God or House of God is composed of all grades of people such as those that make mistakes and for those that are less intelligent and can’t understand many aspects of the faith.A good example is the Worldwide Church of God offshoots who are so misled by their ministry that they follow the Hillel calendar and keep the feasts and the Solemn Assemblies on the wrong days and sometimes in the wrong months; and so we must fast for their error and ignorance, and also for that of Israel and Judah and the nations that understand even less.

This is the kind of crap that COG leaders dream up because they reject the one they claim to follow. Like many other COG leaders, Cox has rejected everything that Jesus came to do and replaced it with his bastardization of the law. Once again the law trumps, Jesus be damned.

The asinine absurdities of Cox get even crazier:

The last day of the primary phase of the Sanctification of the Temple – which Temple we are – is the Seventh of Abib. Once that has happened the sanctification continues on until the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

So do we say as some claim that we don’t need to do anything before the Lord’s Supper as he set it aside and the ceremony of the Footwashing and the Bread and the Wine was enough? That is a false doctrine taught by some offshoots of the Churches of God and shows the appalling ignorance of the ministry of those elements. The commandment of the faith is to be reconciled to one’s brother and that we should not go to the feast empty handed and all males must attend. It is taken for granted that we must prepare individually for the Passover, but also we are commanded to prepare as a congregation and the Sanctification process is and always has been undertaken by the righteous over the ignorant of the congregations of the faith. God has set a process in place that has always existed and must be restored to all the faith.

Sanctification in the House of GodIt is always a fact that the actions of the House of God and its ministry which Temple and Ministry we are, has always undertaken the process of sanctification.

It was from before the giving of the Law to Moses, by the patriarchs such as Job (Job 1:5).

Also we are told:Numbers 20:12 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.

Numbers 27:14 because ye rebelled against my word in the wilderness of Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the waters before their eyes. (These are the waters of Meribah of Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin.)

The explanation here is that because the leaders of the congregation did not sanctify Christ as the Angel of the Presence and the Yahovah of Israel they did not go into the Promised Land. This was an example to the leaders of the Church of God that those who do not order and go through this sanctification process will not enter the First Resurrection.

Who in their right mind would want to spend eternity with this bunch of raving lunatics? Imagine being part of the first resurrection with these nutjobs are your leaders!

Never fear though, these nutjobs still think there is hope for all of us and will stand between us and God so God does not get too pissed at us.

The Seventh day of Abib is the sanctification of those that erred or were too simple in mind to understand that the Sanctification of the Temple had to be done. This process is for those people who have not yet come to understand the glory and mysteries of the Kingdom of God: those people who fall short and do not undertake their full spiritual responsibilities. As Moses and Aaron stood between the wrath of God expressed in Christ and the people in supplication for their safety, so too do we stand so that they may be helped and we may also stand together in safety for our nations.

Someone could have a lot of fun with this but it would only be black humor. This concept is firmly rooted in the soil of heresy. It is interesting that the right question is asked but the wrong answer is given.

The fist point of heresy. The question posed by the writer is "Was not Christ's Sacrifice enough for the process for all time?" And the answer to this most relevant question is "yes." And implicit in the statement that unfolds, which ignores the point of this question, is a failure to understand the scope and force of Christ's sacrifice. This is a common Armstrongist heresy and has been analyzed so often why do it again. In brief, this Fast for the Simple is in the same basket as the rest of the Old Covenant and has been abolished to be replaced by the new order in Christ.

The second point of heresy. The writer makes something superseded by the New Covenant to be a condition for salvation. We have the statement: " This was an example to the leaders of the Church of God that those who do not order and go through this sanctification process will not enter the First Resurrection." Here again we are in Jesus Plus Cult territory. This is a statement that Christ's sacrifice is not adequate in itself and stuff must be added to it - in the case of Armstrongists, stuff from the Old Testament.

This is all a cliche. Same old same old. Typical Armstrongist stuff. What is different is that I do detect a somewhat concealed barb in this write up that is intended to judge and condemn the leaders of other COGs. The Bible weaponized.